Intel Core i5-13600KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

Core i5-13600KF vs Ryzen 9 7945HX specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7945HX performs better than the Core i5-13600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-13600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7945HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13600KF that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7945HX. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7945HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13600KF. The Ryzen 9 7945HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-13600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.